To: Marie
The article says *40* Gigs per second. That's Gigabits per second... divide by 10 to get approximate Gigabytes per second (8 bit word, plus start and stop bits).
14 posted on
07/13/2007 12:59:02 AM PDT by
Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker
They may have meant gigabytes, who knows. Anyway it would be cool to be able to download an entire encylopedia in one second.
15 posted on
07/13/2007 1:01:48 AM PDT by
LukeL
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To: Swordmaker
"That's Gigabits per second... divide by 10 to get approximate Gigabytes per second "Is there PC that can handle 40G/sec? A modem?
yitbos
24 posted on
07/13/2007 1:31:42 AM PDT by
bruinbirdman
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